The joke is on me...

There's a mass exodus from Amsterdam as of ... tomorrow.

People are starting to take time off work to go away for the holidays.

Laura leaves Thursday.

Substantial quantities of dutch people around me seem to be either;

a) going back to their Villages for Christmas and back between boxing day ("second day of Christmas") and New Years Eve ("Oud en Nieuw") and then refusing to talk about January, like it's some traumatic experience they are bracing themselves for...

OR

b)fleeing between now and mid- late january next year for anywhere from a month to six months... basically until June... when summer starts again...

I couldn't feel my feet tonight, after 20 minutes chatting in the cold followed by 10 - 13 minutes of walking to Centraal Station.

So....

Do you think there might be a correlation with any of the above information?

Hah.

I have been told that if you combine the latest weather conditions, with rain,wind and sleet, you get the essence of Amsterdam in January.

Ah ha ha ha ha...er...ha...ha...ha?